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crimeware
(1) Software designed to steal personal information or perform some other illegal operation. It is malicious software that causes a crime to be committed. See warez and malware.

(2) Software that helps someone perform an unwanted or illegal act via the computer. Programs and documentation that enable less technical people to set up their own spam, virus or phishing attacks are crimeware, essentially a software development kit for scoundrels. The good news is that the documentation is probably as horrid as that of most popular commercial software.
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The article goes on to describe the only appropriate response to serious crimeware.
Crimeware and Backup by Randy L. Dyck / Consumer news, advice, product reviews community
The number of sites infecting PCs with password-stealing crimeware reached an all-time high of 31,173 in December, an 827% increase from January 2008, according to the international coalition created to combat electronic crime.
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” This creates more demand for bots, feeding what he and others say is a sophisticated, ruthless capitalistic form of commercialization that's rolling over legitimate organizations' attempts to protect their brands, networks and customers from increasingly sophisticated commercialization of crimeware.
The cybercriminal underground: Commercial sophistication by Deb Radcliff / SC Magazine
 
 
 
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